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Adhesional Small-bowel Obstruction in the Absence of Previous Abdominal Operations
International Journal of Gerontology, 2010 Most of the small-bowel obstructions (SBOs) are the result of adhesions caused by a previous abdominal operation. The commonest previous surgical procedures were colorectal surgery, followed by gynecological surgery, hernia repair, appendicectomy, and ...
Si-Hsuan Chen +5 more
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Urology Research and Practice, 2023 Objective: Postoperative paralytic ileus is a major adverse event of radical cystectomy, causing prolonged hospitalization. The controlling nutritional status score, consisting of serum albumin, total lymphocyte count, and total cholesterol, indicates ...
Kenji Tanabe +6 more
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Shock-wave therapy of gastric outlet syndrome caused by a gallstone [PDF]
, 1989 A patient with gastric outlet syndrome (Bouveret's syndrome) caused by a large gallstone impacted in the duodenal bulb was successfully treated by extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy. Thus, open abdominal surgery could be avoided. For disintegration of
Hoffmann, R. +4 more
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Transverse colon stenosis following laparoscopic total gastrectomy for gastric remnant carcinoma
Journal of Minimal Access Surgery, 2019 Laparoscopic surgery for remnant gastric cancer has been reported in a limited number of cases, and data on post-operative complications are lacking. A 58-year-old male was admitted with remnant gastric cancer.
Egemen Cicek +4 more
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Factors associated with gastrointestinal dysmotility in critically ill patients
Open Medicine, 2023 Critical illness may disrupt nutritional, protective, immune, and endocrine functions of the gastrointestinal tract, leading to a state of gastrointestinal dysmotility.
Petrović Nemanja +4 more
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Laparoscopic Treatment of Gallstone Ileus
, 2014 Gallstone ileus is a rare complication of cholelithiasis that has high morbidity and mortality. An intestinal obstruction can be caused by migration of a large gallstone through a biliary enteric fistula or by impaction within the intestinal tract.
Kemik, O +9 more
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Recent Pathophysiology and Therapy for Paralytic Ileus [PDF]
, 2017 Paralytic ileus is a disease with transport disturbance of intestinal contents due to decreased smooth muscle activity in the small intestine or colon. Complications will occur when paralytic ileus is not treated adequately.
Budi Widodo +10 more
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Prolonged postoperative ileus after elective colorectal cancer surgery [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2018 Background/Aim. Postoperative ileus is a frequent and frustrating occurence for both, patients and surgeons after abdominal surgery. Besides clinical importance of postoperative ileus, its economic aspect is also important.
Nestorović Milica +4 more
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Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.Reduced‐port laparoscopic colectomy (RPLC) for colorectal cancer offers modest intraoperative benefits, including shorter operative time and lower blood loss, while maintaining comparable postoperative recovery, lymph node yield, and complication rates to multi‐port laparoscopic colectomy (MPLC).
Ayesha Shaukat +9 more
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, 2017 Meconium ileus (MI) is an intestinal obstruction caused by thickened meconium, strictly linked to cystic fibrosis (CF) and often representing its first manifestation. Meconium ileus can be either simple (intraluminal occlusion by stick meconium) or complex, with volvulus, atresia, necrosis, perforation, meconium peritonitis, and pseudocyst formation ...
Bagolan P., Morini F., Conforti A.
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